Wednesday, May 20, 2009

As I am typing this (they think I'm working on the chart) the couple across from me is actually fighting- and I mean swearing, cursing, and yelling at each other- over WHICH OF THEM DRINKS THE MOST WATER EACH DAY!!!

Eh, but no one is going to really look at the twitter feed and respond. It's a lot easier to get a good readership and more responses through blogging...this one (since ~2 months ago [I think]) is on my permanent read list, alongside TAP and the rest of the Rx world.

Anyways, I do a bit of med reconciliation (the closest to intern work that I can do, no clinical stuff for me, yet), and I talk to many of the newly admitted patients about their medication history. Dr. Grumpy gets stuck as the marriage counselor...I get people complaining about insurance, people wondering why they're still on a medication, people who have no idea what medication they're taking, people who look up drugs on the internet and find that they have some minor ADE and want to stop the drug immediately, people who change the sig on their own...the list goes on and on. But being their physician, I'd assume you get some of that too!

Welcome to my whining!

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